When the Father of the World’s Richest Man Shot Three Cannibals

Elon Musk is the richest man on Planet Earth. Elon made his billions producing rocket ships and electric cars, among other things. He was a darling of the Left right up until he declared his friendship with Donald John Trump. Now they think he’s the antichrist.

Elon is a delightfully weird guy with a delightfully weird past. He’s certainly diagnosable on a certain level. However, he has weaponized his curious form of Asperger’s syndrome into financial success the likes of which have not been seen in the modern age. Having invested a little time researching his Dad, it seems the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The Father Of The Savant

Errol Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1946. His father was South African, and his mother was English. Errol married Maye Haldeman in 1970. Their first son, Elon, was born the following year.

Errol Musk was a successful businessman in his own right. He was politically active and served in a variety of roles in local government. Along the way, he developed office buildings, subdivisions, retail store space and an air force base. He also owned an auto parts store and had a substantial interest in several emerald mines. He once boasted that his emerald dealings were more smuggling than anything respectable.

These sundry enterprises brought the elder Musk a great deal of money. He used these proceeds to buy himself a yacht, an airplane, several luxury automobiles and a couple of palatial homes. Among all that was a large estate that he used as a rental property.

The Gunfight

My source was an in-person interview I watched with Errol Musk himself. The man looks vaguely like an aging Al Pacino and sports that same lyrical South African accent as does his famous son. I have no compelling reason to doubt the details.

Errol and his six-year-old daughter went out to this remote rental property to check on things. The house was empty in anticipation of its next set of renters. They were hot and sweaty, so Errol set his daughter up in the tub for a bath. He then heard noises coming from downstairs.

When he went down to investigate, Musk found several strange men in his living room. The spokesman for the group was wearing a coat and tie. Musk assumed they might be prospective renters and introduced himself. Without preamble, this man presented a handgun and opened fire.

Musk retreated miraculously unscathed. He scrambled back upstairs and retrieved a loaded .357 magnum revolver. Posting himself in the doorway between the gunmen and his daughter, Errol waited until they came up the stairs. As soon as he got a decent angle, he shot the lead assailant through the head.

The first shooter was dead where he stood. That same bullet also struck and killed the man behind him. Then all hell broke loose.

The Bad Guys fired a total of 52 rounds, one of which would have struck Musk in the chest had it not fortuitously lodged in an aluminum door frame. Musk fired twice total. His second shot struck a man in the groin who bled out on the floor. The rest of the crew then fled in disarray. Musk scooped up his daughter and leapt through a shattered window to safety.

Details

Musk claims that these men were practitioners of muti — witch doctors who would kill adults to kidnap kids. They would then harvest limbs and organs from the stolen children to make traditional medicines. Along the way, they would supposedly nibble a bit as well.

This seemed pretty far-fetched to me. However, Google claims it’s real. In 2010, traditional African healers and the South African government held a conference with the published goal of rooting out the “Evil practice of mutilating human bodies for purposes of muti making.” It is actually plausible that the three men Musk killed really had broken into his home with the intent of killing and eating his daughter.

The Rest Of The Story

Errol Musk is not a terribly nice guy. He divorced Elon’s mom in 1979 amidst allegations of abuse. Elon has described his Dad in the media as a “terrible human being.” Apparently, he’s not wrong.

When Errol was 45, he married 25-year-old Heide Bezuidenhout. He and Heidi had two children. Errol later fathered two more kids by Heidi’s daughter from a previous relationship. He was once quoted as having said, “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce.” Regardless of the man’s character, when Errol Musk was threatened by a mob of armed witch doctors, that guy took care of business. Dropping three murderous cannibals with two rounds from a magnum revolver is undeniably fine gunmanship.